CommercialEuropean Lawmakers Question EASA Review of 737 MAX as Return to Service Nears Transportation lawmakers scrutinized the return to passenger carrying service of the 737 MAX in European airspace as the European Union Aviation Agency (EASA) anticipates issuing its final Airworthiness Directive (AD) for the…
CommercialLufthansa CEO Sees Clean Air Initiatives Driving Renewed Energy for Single European Sky Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr called for more competition between air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in Europe to encourage efficiency improvements within the region’s air traffic system during a Jan. 21 appearance on…
ATM ModernizationEurope’s Largest Air Traffic Project Enters Digital Age as COVID-19 Complicates Operations As the Single European Sky Air Traffic Modernization Research (SESAR) enters its 17th year, the project envisions a shift in the 2020s to a new digital services air traffic infrastructure. But can…
Editor's NoteInnovation, Challenges Fluctuate as COVID-19 Uncertainty Continues As the U.S., U.K., and nations throughout Europe saw the number of COVID-19 cases start to increase again in the third and fourth quarter of 2020, the commercial segment of the global…
Business & GADassault Includes Combined Vision System on 6X Head-up Displays During a Dec. 8 virtual event broadcast from its Merignac hangar in Bordaux, France, Dassault Aviation rolled out the first completed Falcon 6X business jet, which the airframe manufacturer claims are the…
Air TaxiFormer Airbus CEO Joins Board of German Electric Air Taxi Startup Lilium Tom Enders, the former CEO of Airbus, is joining the board of directors for German electric air taxi developer Lilium after being asked to take the position by the startup’s co-founder a…
CommercialIndonesia Authorities Identify Location of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Flight Data Recorder Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee (KNKT) Chief Soerjanto Tjahjono confirmed that his agency has identified the location of the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a Sriwijaya Air…
CommercialDelta to Equip 300 Airbus, Boeing Jets with Viasat In-flight Connectivity Delta is installing Viasat's Ka-band satellite in-flight connectivity (IFC) system on more than 300 of its Airbus A321ceo and Boeing 737-900ER 757-200s. The Atlanta-based international carrier expects to introduce the new service…
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